“With this new book published by Mnemos, you will begin the most fantastic dream quest for the first time since HP Lovecraft, you will survey your own risk the unknown streets of the city of Kadath. Four authors and illustrator have explored Kadath for you. On the trail of Randolph Carter, between beauty and terror, demons and wonders, you explore the famous city of the Lands of Dream, the capital of forgotten gods and cursed ones.”

The Fell Types as open-source Truetype fonts by Ignio Marini. So named because they were imported by John Fell of the Oxford University Press, from Holland circa 1670–1672, to bypass government interference in printing. As Propnomicon says, they’re excellent for “faux antique” documents.

After install they turn up not under “F”, but under “I”, as ‘IM Fell Types’.

In the same vein is the display caps font “LP Aspen Cam”, but where you’d obtain it now I’m not sure. It seems to have completely vanished from the web.

My recent Lovecraftian ‘re-mix’ novelette Crusoe: the macabre further adventures of Robinson Crusoe is now available as an ebook on Amazon, for the Amazon Kindle ereader. It’s on the U.S. store only at the moment ($4.99), and I hope the UK store will list it soon. The whole book was re-formatted from scratch for the Kindle, and includes optimised illustrations in the text. It’s been a learning exercise in hand-crafting the HTML required for the Kindle, and crunching the illustrations down, which is a bit of a chore but is hopefully worth it. I hope to get my other Lovecraft books into native Kindle form over the next few weeks.

MythosCon (Jan 2011, Arizona) has detailed program/schedule information. I can’t afford to go from the UK. But I’m hoping that the convention will be “podcast-friendly”, and will post the best of the panel discussions and talks online as MP3s.

New at The Paris Review, a long interview with Michel Houellebecq. It hardly touches on Lovecraft (his H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life was published in 2008), but does contain some insights into why he likes/writes science fiction.